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Boost field weight in Elasticsearch – Influence Elasticsearch Scoring – Part 2

10/27/2020

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In the previous articles about scoring, and boolean queries Spoon Consulting saw how the scoring of Elasticsearch works by default and how to tweak your query to influence it. In the article below, we will study how we can add different weights to different fields, and the different “boost” behaviors. TL:DR Terms can be reused to “boost” better results – in part 1 Filter can be used to scope a query without influencing the score – in part 1 Mix…

Paginating term aggregation

09/25/2020

Jérémy Gachet

Advanced Usage, Simple Elastic Usage, Spoon's Elastic posts

In Elasticsearch, paginating aggregations results is a recurring need.By default, Elastic will send all results in your aggregation. If a query filter is often enough, it’s not always the wanted behavior. First possibility, increase a lot the size parameter and do the pagination on front side.It can be a good solution… for few hundred results, and a low cardinality. But if we don’t want to crash our app, we probably can do better. Depending on your specific use case you will…

Denormalization for index mapping in Elasticsearch

09/01/2020

Jérémy Gachet

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Denormalization is a key concept for any user of elasticsearch. Discover the basics of a good denormalization of SQL tables.

Improve WordPress search with Elasticsearch

06/05/2020

Jérémy Gachet

Simple Elastic Usage, Spoon's Elastic posts

WordPress powers more than 35% of all websites on the internet (according to Kingsta.com), and if your company has a showcase website or a blog, you probably use wordpress. With a simple plugin, you can enhance your wordpress search by using Elasticsearch. TL:DR Increase your ROI and the sessions durations on your website in less than an hour of work. Provide typo tolerant case insensitive search Search result by score Suggest similar articles Filter results in one click with facets…